Political Career
He was called to be part of the Government of the Republic of Mozambique in 1980, having assumed the office of Minister of Health up to 1987, when he assumed the office of Minister of the Foreign Affairs, a position in which he remained up to 1994. As holder of the diplomacy brief, he contributed enough to the neutralization of the external factors of the destabilization and normalization of the relationships of Mozambique with the West, in the peace process then in course in the country. He gave a special contribution in the coordination of the Government's effort for the reconstruction, control of the inflation and economic growth, between 1994 and 1999.
Paschal Mocumbi was a member of "WHO Task Forces on Health + Development", Geneva, from 1990 to 1999 and has been a member of the "Board of International Women Health Coalition", New York, since 1995.
He is also member of the Medical Association of Mozambique, since 1993, of the Associação Moçambicana of Health Public (AMOSAPU), of the Associação Moçambicana of Defense of the Family (AMODEFA) and of the Association of the Combatants of the Fight of National (ACLLN) Liberation. He dedicates a special professional interest to the maternal-infantile health, having given personal contribution, while Minister of health, for the creation of the nurses' maternal-infantile health basic level course. Participated in the creation and training of the surgery technicians' course, a fact that contributed to improve the service of obstetric urgencies, as well as of the surgical urgencies, at national level. He is co-author of publications such as "Practical Obstetrics", of 1987, and "Interventions in Obstetrics", of 1992.
He was awarded, nationally, with the medals of "Trabalho Socialista", "20 Anos da FRELIMO", "Veterano da Luta de Libertação Nacional", and abroad, with other honours as "Ordem Grande Cruzeiro do Sul" from Brazil, in 1992, and "Grau Cruz - Ordem de Bernardo O'Higgins" from Chile, in 1993.
Pascoal Manuel MOCUMBI is a founding member of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), of the Frelimo Party and the Associação dos Combatentes da Luta de Libertação Nacional.
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